1913-11-05 Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India]
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley, and also known as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her iconic performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963). After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937). Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that her physical attributes sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. Despite her fame as a screen actress, Leigh was primarily a stage performer. During her 30-year career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet, and Lady Macbeth. Later in life, she performed as a character actress in a few films. At the time, the public strongly identified Leigh with her second husband Laurence Olivier, who was her spouse from 1940 to 1960. Leigh and Olivier starred together in many stage productions, with Olivier often directing, and in three films. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and for much of her adult life she suffered from bipolar disorder as well as recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, which was first diagnosed in the mid-1940s and ultimately claimed her life at the age of 53. Although her career had periods of inactivity, in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as the 16th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vivien Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-03 |
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2018-07-27 |
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage) | 2009-07-02 |
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Jornal Português (1938-1951) | Herself (archive footage) | 2005-12-12 |
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Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Herself (archive footage) | 2004-11-09 |
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Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love | Herself (Archive Footage) | 2001-09-13 |
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage) | 2000-08-01 |
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Glorious Technicolor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1998-12-07 |
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Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman | Self (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self (archive footage) | 1996-03-17 |
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That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self (archive footage) | 1990-10-22 |
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
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That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) | 1972-01-10 |
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Ship of Fools | Mary Treadwell | 1965-07-29 |
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Karen Stone | 1961-12-28 |
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Scarlett O'Hara (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
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The Skin of Our Teeth | Sabina | 1959-01-01 |
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The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer | 1955-11-01 |
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The Screen Director | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1951-03-12 |
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A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois | 1951-09-19 |
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Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina | 1948-01-22 |
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Caesar and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | 1945-12-11 |
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That Hamilton Woman | Emma, Lady Hamilton | 1941-04-03 |
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Waterloo Bridge | Myra | 1940-05-17 |
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
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21 Days Together | Wanda | 1940-01-07 |
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self | 1940-07-31 |
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Gone with the Wind | Scarlett O'Hara | 1939-12-15 |
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St. Martin's Lane | Liberty | 1938-10-18 |
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A Yank at Oxford | Elsa Craddock | 1938-02-18 |
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Fire Over England | Cynthia | 1937-03-05 |
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Storm in a Teacup | Victoria Gow | 1937-02-25 |
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Dark Journey | Madeleine Goddard | 1937-07-02 |
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Look Up and Laugh | Marjorie Belfer | 1935-08-13 |
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Gentlemen's Agreement | Phil Stanley | 1935-01-01 |
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Things Are Looking Up | Schoolgirl | 1935-06-09 |
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The Village Squire | Rose Venables | 1935-04-14 |
